Chapter 87 Root System

Ye Zhou was afraid that the noise would be too loud and would alert the enemy, so he stopped the convoy 5,000 meters away from the mutated plants.

Everyone took their equipment and prepared to sneak in quietly. Pu Zhi stood in front of the crowd and made sure there was no danger nearby before nodding to indicate that they could continue forward.

Just like that, not long after, everyone moved to a place about 3,000 meters away.

Pu Zhi didn't see anything unusual, but his heart was beating wildly. He was afraid it would be dangerous to go any further.

But in order not to expose the abnormality, she still led everyone forward. As a result, after just a few steps, she saw through her special ability that there were things like tree roots moving quickly underground under the soil layer more than 900 meters away, rushing straight towards them, and their target was obviously them.

"Oh no, we've been discovered, retreat!" Pu Zhi immediately shouted to everyone.

In just the time it took to say a word, the tree roots had already reached a distance of five or six hundred meters.

The people led by Ye Zhou were well-trained and retreated quickly when they heard the order, but the speed of the level 5 mutant plant was too fast and they were caught up in less than half a minute.

"Xiao Ren, freeze!" Pu Zhi gave an order, and Xiao Ren immediately used his special power on the ground behind him, freezing the ground and underground.

The tree roots were blocked by the ice of the small blade for a few seconds, and then like a bull in heat, it smashed the ice without hesitation, and it would destroy everything that stood in its way!

Taking advantage of this gap, everyone ran backwards frantically, and before they knew it, they had run out of the 3,000-meter range. The tree roots stopped within 3,000 meters and no longer chased them.

"It's not chasing us anymore." Xishan felt the terrifying energy fluctuations nearby decrease, and reminded everyone while panting.

Everyone slowly stopped, and the soldiers held their guns tightly with both hands, paying attention to the movements around them at all times.

Pu Zhi used his special ability to check, "It has indeed stopped, and there are no roots nearby."

After hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and walked several hundred meters before stopping.

Under Ye Zhou's instructions, everyone moved to the nearby high ground. Two soldiers took out the drones from their bags, debugged them, and used the drones to investigate the true appearance of the level 5 mutant plants.

Although Team One had fought against a Level 5 mutant plant, they were not able to see its true form, so they had no idea what kind of plant it was.

The drones flew left and right towards the direction where the mutant plants were attacking. Unfortunately, because there was no signal, the images could not be played in real time, so the soldiers could only fly by feeling.

After about seven or eight minutes, the drone had flown one or two thousand meters, and everyone could only see a black dot.

Suddenly, in the dense woods, two flexible tree roots like loaches stretched out and hit the drone hard.

From a distance, everyone could only see two black lines forming two black dots, and only Pu Zhi could see it a little more clearly.

Seeing that there was still one drone that had escaped, Pu Zhi snatched the controller from the soldier and began to control the drone with a calm expression.

The tree root may have felt that the drone was not a big threat, so it only used one root to hit it. It didn't look like an attack, but more like a child playing with a toy.

In the end, the drone successfully flew back, but it was almost scrapped.

Ye Zhou removed the camera equipment from the drone and brought it in front of the five psychics to play it together.

As the camera moves from the ground over the tree trunks to the sky, the picture contains only lush green treetops for five or six minutes.

The picture was shaking, showing an empty area not far away, and in the center stood a tree that looked out of place with the surrounding trees.

The reason is simple. Compared with other trees, it is too thin. Other trees are at least as thick as an adult man's thigh, but it is only as big as a woman's arm and only about two meters tall.

It looks so thin and frail, but it can make the surrounding trees avoid it and grow around it. It is very likely the target this time.

Ye Zhou quickly paused and took a picture of the scene with his mobile phone.

But the distance was too far to tell what species it was.

One of the soldiers was a local. He thought for a moment and reminded: "This is a park built a few years ago. There are only five kinds of trees planted here: pine, bamboo, banyan, sand tree, and camphor."

"Looking at the tree roots just now, let's rule out the bamboo first. Is there anyone in the team who is familiar with plant roots?" Jin Na said seriously, touching her chin.

In response to her long silence, it seemed that no one knew.

Ye Zhou clicked the play button on the screen and the picture started moving again. Not long after the camera zoomed in, several tree roots appeared on the ground, ready to move.

Compared with the size of the trees next to it, it is almost as thick as an arm.

Because the soldiers cannot see the real-time images, they can only fly left and right, moving forward from time to time to avoid missing key information.

When the tree roots saw that the drone did not approach immediately, they remained motionless.

Ye Zhou took photos of the tree roots and asked experts to identify them when he returned. However, the size of the tree made everyone wonder if the single tree was a level 5 mutant plant. The root was thicker than the main plant...

The following scene only moved forward for a while, perhaps because the distance was too close, the tree roots launched an attack.

The picture was chaotic for a moment, but it also allowed us to capture detailed images of the tree roots.

Everyone waited for Ye Zhou to finish recording and waited for his next instruction.

"There are too few of these things. I need photos of its main body, and finally test its strength."

Pu Zhi was not surprised to hear that the mission had not been completed yet, because crystal cores are not so easy to earn.

This time, Ye Zhou released 15 drones at once, using a human-wave tactic to ensure that there was always one drone that could capture the subject.

Pu Zhi's special ability was very convenient, so he was also assigned to one.

Fifteen drones took off at the same time, flying towards the tree in different directions as if surrounding it, and flew as high as eighty or ninety meters.

With the experience from last time, everyone flew very fast. The mutant plants seemed to sense something was wrong and knocked down three of them as soon as they flew within a distance of 3,000 meters.

It did not leave the others behind and whipped them one by one. It had just flown to a distance of two thousand meters and had lost seven drones.

Ye Zhou had no vision and flew left and right from time to time. As he flew so high, his accuracy in hitting the tree roots was obviously reduced.

But there were too many tree roots. At a glance, there were at least thirty or forty of them, like countless tentacles trying to pull the drone into the abyss.

When the distance reached one thousand meters, only three drones were still holding on.

Pu Zhi controlled the drone to nimbly avoid attacks again and again. The closer it got, the more frequent the attacks became.

It was impossible to go deeper into the last 800 meters, so Pu Zhi could only control the drone to fly back, otherwise it would be useless to take the photos if he couldn’t come back.

Only two drones returned successfully, one belonged to Pu Zhi, and the other fell outside the range of 3,000, and Ye Zhou sent someone to pick it up.

Everyone first watched Pu Zhi's video. Ye Zhou recorded it diligently. The maximum number of tree roots that appeared at one time was between 45 and 50, and the upper limit was unknown.